Anthony Johnson Jr died while in custody in April 2024 after a struggle with detention officers outside of his cell. Surveillance video from the jail showed an officer placing his knee on Johnson ...

Anthony Johnson Sr. speaks outside the Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting on July 2, 2024, in downtown Fort Worth, after two jailers were indicted for murder for the death of his son ...

Anthony Johnson Jr. and his mother.(Courtesy of Anthony Johnson's family) A U.S. district judge dismissed the claims against Tarrant County in the civil case brought by the family of Anthony ...

In August of 1670, several months after Anthony Johnson's death, a jury in a Virginia court decided that, because "he was a Negro and by consequence an alien," ownership of the 250 acres Johnson ...

In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...